Statistical record-card



W. H. BASSETT.

STATISTICAL RECORD CARD.

APPLLCATLON FILED Aue.29.191s.

1,346, 1 62, Patented July 13, 1920.

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WILLIAM H. BAssETT, oEEAs'I` ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, AssIGNoR To POWERS ACCOUNTING MACHINECOMPANY, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., A 'CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

STATISTICAL RECORD-CARD,

Specicatiion-of Letters latent Patented J 11137 13, 192.0.

Application filed August 29, 1918. Serial No? 251,927.

T o all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLTAM H. BAssETT,/` a citizen of the Unitedl States, residing in East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Statistical Record-Cards, of which the following is a.

' specification.

This invention relates in general to statistical cards for use with accounting machines, and more especiallyto record cards to be perforated for use with accounting maf chines of the type known as the Powersy accounting machines. y

' Among the main objects of the present invention it is aimed to provide a card by which the surface area of the card can be used to the best advantage with a minimum loss of paper. y

In practice, for a given accounting. machine, the cards must all be of a standard size. lVith certain records, kit has been found that the columns of records required would only lill a part of the card. In other words, a large part of the card would be wasted. To this end, the present invention 'aims to provide a card of standard size which may be used lfor a plurality of records and thus the portion otherwise wasted,- effectively used. p

lVith` many accounting systems, using these accounting machines and cards, there are coming trains, cars and the like.

'balancing records to be taken, as for instance, in Ordinary'bookkeeping, a debit record to balance a credit record, inventories, aj record of goods bought ,and Isold, and in railroading, a list of outgoing and in- TO this end, the vpresent invention aims to prov/ide a card in which the two sO-called balancing records may be recorded on the same card, the advantage vof which is self-,evident and need not be enlarged upon. l

A special feature of the present invention is the provision of a card for balancing records as aforesaid on which two records are to be made, a record on one portion of thev card and a record on the other portion of the card, the -record portions being verted relative to one another that is, when the card is set up for reading one recordand that in the present instance the record on the leftportion of the card, theother record will be inverted, and the corners of the respective portions of the card so marked that the cards may with facility be arranged inI piles according to the class of records to be recorded, thus'when debit and credit records are to be recorded, all of the cards may `specific embodiment thereof illustrated in the single figure in the accompanying drawings.

The card C represents in the present instance a card of standard size for use with accounting machines of the type known as the Powers accounting machines, and is divided generally into the two areas or record portions 15 and 16, the area 15 when turned for recording, appearing on the left half of the card, while the area 16 at such time appears inverted and on the right half of the card, this arrangement of course being inverted when the card is turned so that the area 16 is positioned for recording. The areas 15 and 16 are provided with a plurality of columns of data 17 as is usual with such statistical cards, eachcolumn having one or more rows of indications or indicia to be: perforated according to thedata to be recorded. l y

Thus, referring to the drawing, the Orders portion or end of the card, by way of eX- ample, would be perforated as shown, and the reading would be an order on the 2nd day of the 3rd vmonth of 1914, at plant 5, customer-symbol 210, customercode 451, type 43, cylinder number 333213, the plant supposedly being, one manufacturing cylinders. The insheet vportion or end of the card is perforated and read to show the insheet or balancing record.

' In the present instance, thel embodiment illustrates av cardused with a plant manufacturing cylinders ,which may be returned for repair, and thus the area 15 is marked Orders to indicate-the original shipment of the cylinder, which, is a debit against the cus` l tomer, and the area16 Insheets to indicate `datato be recorded, the upper left hand corner of the area is cut at 18, vvhile the corresponding corner of lthe-area 16 is left square. This arrangement of marking the respective corners mayr of course 'be similarly extended to money debit and credit record cards andthe like.

lIt is obvious `that various changes and modifications maybe made to the details of construction Without departing from the general spirit of the invention. I claim: 1. A card of the type adapted for cony trolling accounting machines, said card having a pair of record portions, each portion being inverted relative to the other portion.

2. A card of the typeadapted for controlling accounting machines, said card having a pair of record portions, `each portion being provided with indicia, the indicia of one portion being inverted. relative tothe other portion. v 3. A card of the type adapted for coni trolling accounting machines, saidcard having a pair of record portions, each `portion being provided with vertical series of indicia, the indicia of one lportion being inverted relative to that of the other portion.

4. A card of the type adapted for .con-

trolling accounting machines, said card having a pair of record portions, each portion comprising parallel Ivertical :columns provided With vertical series of indicia, the indicia ofone record portion being inverted relative to the other record portion.

5. A card of the type adapted for controlling accounting machines, said card having a pair of record portions, each p ortiony ing apair of record portions, each portion comprising parallel vertical columns prol. vided with vertical lseries of indicia, the indicia of. one recordportion nbeing inverted relative to the other record portion, the upper left hand corner of one of said portions being cut away to distinguish such portion from the other record portion.

7. A card of the type adaptednfor controlling accounting machines, said card having a pair` of record portions, each portion ,comprising parallel vertical columns vprovided With vertical series of indicia, the indicia of the right hand portion being upside-down, and inverted relative to the leftv portion-being hand portion, the indicia of the vright hand or more vertical series of numeral-indicia be- .or more vertical series of numeral indicia beneath sa1d heading indicla, the indicla of one record-portion being inverted relative to the portion of the other, the indiciaof'one portion relating to credits' and the 'other relating to debits.

10. A card trolling accounting machines, said card being provided with apair of record portions,

ofthe type adapted for coneach portion comprising a space extending across the upper part thereof and adapted to receive Written data, and vertical parallel columns beneath said space, each column being-provided With headinr indicia and one or more vertical series o numeral indicia beneath said heading indicia, the indicia ofl one record-portion being inverted relativeto the portion of the other, vthe indicia of the left hand record portion being right-side-up.

' 11. A card of the type adapted for controlling accounting. machines, said card ,being provided with a pair of record` portions, each portion comprising a space extending across the upper part thereof and adapted to receive .Written data, and vertical parallel columns beneath said space, each column being provided with heading indicia and one or more vertical series of numeral indicia beneath said heading indicia,- the i'ndicia of one record-portion beingy inverted relative to the portion of the `other,'the indicia of one portion relating to credits and the other relating to debits, the indicia ci the left hand record right-side-up. WILLIAM H. BASSETT.

Witnesses: l

WILLIAM C. KLovEKoRN,

JOHN MORRIS. 

